Loretta Young Quotes
In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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There is a lot more to me than just being a crazy fighter.
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Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.
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We Greeks are the blacks of Europe.
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Leaks are always bad news.
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I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
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I don't read the critics.
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Our communities are being destroyed by racial tension - and we're too polite to talk about it.
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I only began to sing because I couldn't get a job as an actress.
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
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Human emotion is more interesting than anything. Everything that is so overtly sexual is not real. Real emotion is sexy. It's vulnerable and raw.
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The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House.
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I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours.
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If everybody'd agree to quit using money, I'd be happy to play for free every day for awhile. But I don't play benefits or any kind of fund-raisers. I prefer to play at hospitals, for people who otherwise can't see us. But I can't see playing for causes, whatever the cause may be.
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Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
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I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.
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I've often said the reader knows every bit as much about Thorne as I do. When I created him for 'Sleepyhead,' I was determined he should be a character who would develop, book by book, change and grow as we all do, and who - crucially - would be unpredictable.
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In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.
